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About Our Guest

Drew Young is a native of the East Coast, growing up in Connecticut, and now resides in Utah with his wife and daughter. He studied at Brigham Young University where he helped in teaching and developing curriculum for various student development courses. He’s been sharing his story with numerous audiences around Salt Lake County for the past five years and has been featured in LDS Living YouTube series and magazine.

He serves as the publicity manager at FranklinCovey, where he assists in managing best-selling book launches, and social media campaigns, as well as booking high-profile thought leaders, storytellers, and celebrities for On Leadership, the fastest-growing and largest leadership development online newsletter in the world.

Check out his books:

The Meaning of Your Mission: Lessons and Principles to Know You Are Enough

Stand Guard at the Door of Your Mind

Wonderful Counselor: A God Who Will Help Us Through Our Darkest Times

Interview Timestamps:

0:00- Early life and preparing to serve a mission; Experience at the MTC

24:31- Returning home from the MTC and dealing with the stigma of not going on a mission

30:01- Family’s response to returning from MTC; finding direction in life

40:55- The Meaning of Your Mission

44:53- Dating at BYU and the stigma of returning early from a mission; meeting his wife

51:15- Ending Questions

 

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